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Strong's #6939 - קִדְרוֹן
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- Kidron = "dark"
- a stream east of Jerusalem
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קדשׁ (√ of following; possibly original idea of separation, withdrawal (Baud Studien, ii Nö LOB Mark 22,1879, 361 RS Semitic i. 140; 2nd ed. 150); Late Hebrew = Biblical Hebrew; Phoenician קדש holy, מקדש sanctuary; Assyrian ‡adâšu II. I, cleanse (Meissn Suppl. 84), also ‡adištu, hierodule consecrated to Ištar (compare AJerem Izdubar 59f.); Arabic 
proper name, of a mountain (Nö l.c. RS Proph. see, N. 9); in Arabic otherwise under influence of Hebrew, so Ethiopic; compare ᵑ7קדשׁ in derived species and derivatives, Syriac 
consecrate, etc.; Palmyrene קדש id.; Aramaic קְדָשָׁא, 
(ear- or nose-) ring, (originally holy thing, Nö l.c.); — on whole subject see Baud Nö RS (references above), also HPS Presb. Revelation 1881,588ff.; different from חרם see GFM Ju. p. 36).
קִדְרוֹן (“turbid,” compare Job 6:16,) [Kidron], pr.n. of a stream with a valley of the same name flowing between Jerusalem and the mount of Olives, and emptying itself into the Dead Sea, 2 Samuel 15:23; 1 Kings 2:37, 15:13 2 Kings 23:4; Jeremiah 31:40.
